Douglas S. Chan

CEO and Founder
Zenalyst Inc.

Co-President and Co-Founder
Cayuga Wireless LLC

Email:
dsc
[ at ]
douglaschan
[ dot ]
com

Biographical Sketch

Douglas S. Chan received from Cornell University his Ph.D. degree
in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) with minor in applied mathematics and M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering (EE).
He received his B.A.Sc. degree in EE from Queen's University in Canada.

Doug is CEO of Zenalyst, an artificial intelligence-driven financial analytics service, which he founded in 2016.
Since 2017, he has also become Co-President and Co-Founder of Cayuga Wireless, an Wi-Fi technologies company.

From 2014-2017, Doug was a Visiting Researcher Scholar with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
University of California, Berkeley, where he was with the
Swarm Lab and Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
Prior to that (2006-2014), he was a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems' Wireless Networking Business Unit and his work included
R&D on Wi-Fi products and their standardizations. Later at Cisco, Doug was with Cisco
Advanced Architecture and Research and investigated emerging paradigms
like fog computing, data analytics, and Internet of Things.
Before Cornell (1998-2000), he was a Software
Engineer with the IBM Toronto Lab, where he developed enterprise-scaled
applications for database access and distributed computing.

Doug is a Senior Member of IEEE and a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng.) of Ontario,
Canada. He also received recognitions from the IEEE Standards Association on his contributions to the 802.11n and 802.11y wireless LAN standards.